It’s been a while since Taylor Ferns has been able to get a full two-race weekend in. Mother Nature has interrupted the last couple of scheduled doubleheader weekends that she tentatively had on her calendar. Ferns will look to compete twice this weekend in two states, with two different series in her Jimmy’s Towing/Indy Race Parts Maxim.
The views in northwestern Canada are pretty amazing, especially at sunrise and sunset. The Northern Lights are often visible and make for a breathtaking sight. For sprint car fans in the northern reaches of Canada, the annual Oil City Cup at Castrol Raceway in Edmonton are sights and sounds they most look forward to all year long , as the World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series invades town.
In just a couple of short years, the Sprint Car Smackdown at Kokomo Speedway has become one of the “Must See” events on the Amsoil USAC National Sprint Car Series schedule. Three straight nights of action on one of the raciest quarter-mile bullrings in the country, raises the level of competition to epic proportions. Tracy Hines thrives on racing against the best of the best and looks to return to Victory Lane at a track he has had a great deal of success at over the years.
Current NASCAR K&N Pro Series East (NKNPSE) points leader Ben Rhodes will make his ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards debut with powerhouse Venturini Motorsports (VMS) driving the No.55 Alpha Energy Solutions Toyota Camry at Madison International Speedway on Sunday, August 24th.
Sixteen OSCAAR Hanover Holiday Modifieds signed in to race at Delaware Speedway. With the time trials and heat races setting the starting field #8 Gary McLean and #82 Justin DeMelo would lead the field to green for 25 laps of feature action. McLean and Demelo put on a fierce battle at the front until contact coming out of four almost ended the night for both drivers. McLean was able to continue but the #82 of DeMelo was done for the night. This handed the lead to #3 Jamie Cox who won last year’s event.
Kevin Swindell, driving the No.15 Zaxby’s Toyota for Venturini Motorsports in a substitution role for driver John Wes Townley, made the most of his opportunity Sundayafternoon with a thrilling late race surge to come from behind and win the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards - Central Illinois SuperChevyStores.com 100 at the Springfield dirt-mile.
Will Power recalls his first impression of the Milwaukee Mile - "a road course with no right turns" - when he arrived for the June 2006 Champ Car race.
Following a runner-up finish on the second preliminary night of the Knoxville Nationals, Kraig Kinser and his team have been on a roll. They wrapped up sprint car racing's biggest event with a 10th-place finish and carried that momentum into a trio of races in the Midwest this past week and weekend. Kinser finished among the top-five in all three races, at three different tracks in a pair of states for the World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series.
The eighth race in the 2014 NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1 was held at Riverside Speedway in Antigonish, Nova Scotia on Saturday. Steckly’s weekend looked to be going well when a part failure saw him spin and back the Canadian Tire/Sylvania Dodge hard into the wall.
The intensity continues to build during NHRA’s 75th anniversary season at the 37th annual Muckleshoot Casino Resort NHRA Northwest Nationals, which takes place July 24-26 at Pacific Raceways.
